you could use something like that (didnt tested):
File.open('/etc/passwd').each do |line|
l=line.split(':')
Facter.add("home_#{l[0]}") do
setcode do
l[5]
end
end
end
Cheers,
Ohad
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to create a bunch of Facter facts in a loop. The code
> inside is evaluated at some weird time, *out of order*, and I don't
> know enough Ruby to fix it. The goal is to get access to user
> homedirs, because I can't figure out any other way to do that in
> Puppet.
>
> Here's a few tries:
>
> passwd = IO.readlines('/etc/passwd')
> passwd.each do |line|
> line =~ /(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*)/
> Facter.add("home_#{$1}") do
> setcode do
> #{$6}
> end
> end
> end
>
> This ends up with every home_$user fact having the same homedir
> listed as the liste user in /etc/passwd.
>
> passwd = IO.readlines('/etc/passwd')
>
> homes = Array.new
> index = 0
>
> passwd.each do |line|
> line =~ /(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*)/
> homes.push $6
> Facter.add("home_#{$1}") do
> setcode do
> puts "stuff: "+", "+index.to_s+", "+homes[index]
> index += 1
> homes[index-1]
> end
> end
> end
>
> This ends up with home_$user fact having a randomly selected, but
> distinct homedir.
>
> Help?
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
> And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
> other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/<http://www.digitalkingdom.org/%7Erlpowell/>***
> http://www.lojban.org/
>
> >
>
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